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I'm not going to boycott products to protest SOPA... I don't even see how products are related to internet censorship? If I were to do so however, I'm only going to do it to companies that support SOPA.

I'm not going to boycott products to protest SOPA... I don't even see how products are related to internet censorship? If I were to do so however, I'm only going to do it to companies that support SOPA.

That would be the entertainment industry. Which make millions (even billions) from people buying stuff.

I'm not going to boycott products to protest SOPA... I don't even see how products are related to internet censorship? If I were to do so however, I'm only going to do it to companies that support SOPA.

The entertainment industry's profit hunger is the reason why these laws are being discussed. They want to stop people from pirating their stuff, so they will have to buy it instead. Which is an understandable goal in a society based on money, even though these laws will also have some other huge consequences than just preventing people from pirating.

The companies which support SOPA don't say it officially, because they know they'll get slammed by the people, to some extent - just like GoDaddy earlier in this thread. Some corporations have said publicly that they oppose it. I usually go by this rule: Always assume the worst of corporations. If they haven't said anything anywhere, I assume they support it.

I personally think it'd be good to show all of them in every way possible that we won't accept any of this at all. And if they don't support SOPA, you can still buy their things after March.But it's up to you. I just think this is one of the easiest things we could possibly do to protest.

Kader Arif, who was appointed to investigate ACTA for EU, has quit his role in disgust:

"I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.

As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal to convey citizens' legitimate demands.

Everyone knows the ACTA agreement is problematic, whether it is its impact on civil liberties, the way it makes Internet access providers liable, its consequences on generic drugs manufacturing, or how little protection it gives to our geographical indications.

This agreement might have major consequences on citizens' lives, and still, everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament from having its say in this matter. That is why today, as I release this report for which I was in charge, I want to send a strong signal and alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not take part in this masquerade."

Apparently the effects of ACTA go beyond the internet, sounds like EU's parliament has worse issues than the US congress....

USA has already signed it."The United States, Australia, Canada, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Morocco, and Singapore signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at a ceremony on October 1, 2011, in Tokyo, marking an important step forward in the international fight against trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy." (couldn't resist including the last part, for the kolz)Source: http://www.ustr.gov/acta